Category: Local News

“The people did not want a Gotabaya Rajapaksa but a proper leader who is capable in putting the country on the right track”, said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

A Police Inspector and a Police Constable have been sentenced to a 28 year rigorous imprisonment for soliciting a bribe of Rs.10,000 in 2009.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has made a sudden visit to the National Hospital in Colombo a short while ago.

The Mayor of Matale Municipal Council Daljith Aluvihare was arrested by the police, for assaulting a Municipal Councilor yesterday (08).

The JVP has challenged the government to present all amendments that are beneficial to the public before the upcoming Parliamentary Election, if in fact, it is seeking a two thirds majority in Parliament to pass progressive Constitutional Amendments.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has met Minister of Home Affairs and Law of Singapore, Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam at the Presidential Secretariat, yesterday (08).

Passenger Transport Management and Power and Energy Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said yesterday that people whom he had met at the Werahera office branch of the Department of Motor Traffic had told him that the customer service at the branch has now been streamlined following the sudden inspection tour by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa two weeks ago.

Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera today presented a bill calling for repeal of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA), No 13 of 1951.

The United National Party has requested the appointment of a Parliament Select Committee into the alleged controversial recordings of phone calls of Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake.

UNP Member of Parliament Ranjan Ramanayake yesterday said it is questionable as to how the copies of CDs seized from him went into the hands of third parties.

An overseas travel ban has been imposed on former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Shani Abeysekara by the Nugegoda Magistrate’s Court.

United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa yesterday (7) alleged that former MP Duminda Silva who is convicted for the murder of former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was given the death sentence in an unfair manner.

Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa assured support of all MPs to the government if it fulfils all the pledges in the policy statement by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ‘Vision of Prosperity and Splendour’.

UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday told Parliament that he had never conspired to kill any MP.

Former Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) SSP Shani Abeysekara has been interdicted, the Police Media Division said.

A 24-hour special operations centre has been established at the Police Special Task Force headquarters in Bauddhaloka Mawatha to ensure national security and public order.